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==Fast and Furious scandal==
==Fast and Furious scandal==
:''Main article: '''[[Operation Fast and Furious]]'''''
:''Main article: '''[[Operation Fast and Furious]]'''''
On March 10, 2011 Holder made his first of many comments about the Justice Department's internal investigation, telling Texas Senator [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] that he had "asked the Inspector General to try to get to the bottom of it." Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar was asked to head an independent investigation. Holder had been in effect Schnedar's boss from 1994 until 1997 while she served as assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in the 90s. During Ms. Schnedar's tenure the two had worked a number of cases together.<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/fast_and_furious_in_a_rotten_nutshell.html#ixzz27iRBCN28 Fast and Furious in a Rotten Nutshell], Ronald Kolb, ''American Thinker'', October 7, 2011,</ref> Schnedar quit shortly before the Inspector General's Report was issued, clearing Holder. The bulk of the report throughout was done by Schnedar, but Press Releases attributed the report to her replacement.<ref>[http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/22/fast_and_furious_doj_inspector_general_report_delivered Fast and Furious: DOJ Inspector General Report Delivered], Katie Pavlich, ''Townhall'', August 22, 2012.</ref>
The ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that [[White House]] officials stopped a requirement for gun dealers to report bulk sales of high-powered semiautomatic rifles commonly used by illegal drug cartels. The proposal from the [[Treasury Department]]'s Bureau of Alchol, Tobacco, and Firearms was held up on White House orders from Obama Chief of Staff [[Rahm Emanuel]].<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/17/AR2010121706598.html</ref>
On March 10, 2011 Holder made his first of many comments about the Justice Department's internal investigation as to why the Treasury Department was ordered not to enforce the law at the Justice Department's request, telling Texas Senator [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] that he had "asked the Inspector General to try to get to the bottom of it." Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar was asked to head an independent investigation. Holder had been in effect Schnedar's boss from 1994 until 1997 while she served as assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in the 90s. During Ms. Schnedar's tenure the two had worked a number of cases together.<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/fast_and_furious_in_a_rotten_nutshell.html#ixzz27iRBCN28 Fast and Furious in a Rotten Nutshell], Ronald Kolb, ''American Thinker'', October 7, 2011,</ref> Schnedar quit shortly before the Inspector General's Report was issued, clearing Holder. The bulk of the report throughout was done by Schnedar, but Press Releases attributed the report to her replacement.<ref>[http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/22/fast_and_furious_doj_inspector_general_report_delivered Fast and Furious: DOJ Inspector General Report Delivered], Katie Pavlich, ''Townhall'', August 22, 2012.</ref>
==Terrorist pardons==
==Terrorist pardons==